Soyuz-U2 launched the uncrewed Progress M-8 cargo craft from Baikonur to resupply the Mir space station, docking on June 1, 1991 with fuel, supplies, and equipment for the resident crew.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 10 T
- Flight
- 49th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 30 May 1991, 08:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1991-038
- Launches in 1991
- 39th of 91
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